Future funding
Endowment fund would ensure a sustainable budget for Warming House By Tom Donahue Crunch the Warming House numbers and it reveals a growing need for the program’s daily work to alleviate hunger and food insecurity in the Olean community. The student-run soup...
A Golden Opportunity
By Tom Missel In the early 1970s, the only social action that seemed to matter at St. Bonaventure was the years-long, acrimonious battle students waged with the administration over intervisitation rights in the dorms. Two presidents over a four-year period had asked...
Thank You for Empowering Students Through Scholarships
Jonny Walker, ’24RochesterSports media While finishing his last few months at Bona’s, Jonny Walker has had the chance to reflect on some of his once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. He is the editor-in-chief of the Bona Venture and sports director at WSBU 88.3 FM “The...
A daughter’s life’s work becomes a legacy of possibility
This is a story of courage and determination. It is a tribute to Jeannie Bionda, a member of the Class of 1994, who boldly blazed her own path in life and succeeded — but who died too young. And it is the beginning of the story of the powerful difference she will make...
The Music Scene
Music is a big part of college life. In the last issue we asked if there’s a song you associate with your time at Bona’s, one that transports you back to campus the second you hear it. Read on – and try not to sing out loud. The Boss takes...
A Message from the President
I’m energized by meeting the Bonaventura famiglia from Allegany to Italy and everywhere in between You think you learned the basics in elementary school, those indelible lessons that stick in your brain forever, even after you’ve hit life’s 55-year mile marker....
A Path Unimagined
For more than 50 years, Fr. Dan Riley has inspired countless students and alumni By Tom Missel Tim Shaffer had narrowed his college decision to two: big-city Marquette and small-town St. Bonaventure. Hailing from Portsmouth, Ohio, a small city on the Kentucky border...
Graduation holds special significance to student who pays tribute to Korean POW
By Beth Eberth Jack Green was born the year his uncle, Lt. James F. Sullivan, ’49, graduated from St. Bonaventure College. Four years later Green would be standing graveside, equally scared and excited as a 21-gun salute boomed into the Boston air and...
Embracing the Southwest
Colored pencil drawing titled “Spirits From The Peaks” by Wally Lokakema. Photos by Danny Bush. An alum’s love of the Southwest and respect for the history and culture of indigenous people led him to bequeath a stunning collection of Southwestern artwork...
A Bolder Bonaventure
Be a founder of our future We’re setting out to build A Bolder Bonaventure for generations to come. This past fall, St. Bonaventure launched the largest campaign in its history. Comprehensive in scope, the campaign — named A Bolder Bonaventure:...